economy. ithink this is often at the root of the crisis. people whose land on which this applies, are often the most marginalized economically. you talk about the 9 & and 1%, they are the 99% and a cd he leaves, local and the big oil companies will, as just a very narrow interests and ignoring the rights the people on the ground. it is a vast region, at the middle of the desert but it is an incredibly rich region in terms of natural resources. i think it is important to recognize particularly with algeria, that it is not long ago, just 50 years ago, intense battles were under way to fight the colonial power, to fight france, and colonialism. it is a very short history in terms of people's fights for sovereignty and for liberation and for accessing control of their own land. i think it is important to understand the geography. yes, a jury that neighbors libya and mali, but it is in order for us to understand the history and the incredible significance of that region. >> one of the interesting things about what has happened in the last few days is the for years, the odds syrian gov

economy. thefinancial well-being of the american people is not leveraged to be used. the full faith and credit of the u.s. is not a bargaining chip. >> the death toll from the syrian government airstrike on a northern town has reached at least 20 people in addition to around 100 wounded. the victims were gathered in the public market when syrian warplanes bombed them from the sky sunday. the group doctors without borders says the attacks followed earlier bombings of local health facilities, making it nearly impossible to adequately treat the victims. on monday, 151 people including 21 children were killed across syria according to the opposition group local coordination committees of syria. the israeli military has shot dead a palestinian teenager in the west bank. a classmate of the slain teen said soldiers opened fire on a group of students who were throwing stones to the separation barrier. doctors say the 17-year-old was shot three times. in egypt, at least 19 people are dead and more than 100 wounded after two railroad cars derailed south of cairo. state owned media said the train

we talk about immigration reform in the first year, that's beforetheeconomywason the verge of collapse. lehman brothers had collapsed. the stock market was collapsing. and so my first priority was making sure we prevented us from going into a great depression. and i think everybody remembers where we were four years ago. what i confess i did not expect, and so i'm happy to take responsibility for being naive here, is that republicans who had previously supported comprehensive immigration reform -- my opponent in 2008 who had been a champion of it and who attended these meetings -- suddenly would walk away. >> president obama's comments come as his administration faces scrutiny for deporting and detaining a record number of undocumented people. nearly 400,000 immigrants were deported during the last fiscal year. republican presidential nominee mitt romney also fielded questions about immigration during a wednesday appearance on univision. romney attacked obama is deferred action policy that allows some young undocumented people to remain in the country temporarily, saying a mor

it is going to savetheireconomy, whenactually it devastates local communities. >> hundreds of people gathered in new york city on saturday for a public memorial service honoring and schwartz, the internet freedom activist who took his own life earlier this month. he was weeks before trial date for downloading millions of articles provided by the nonprofit research service jstor at mit. swartz was facing 35 years in prison, a penalty supporters called excessively harsh. at the memorial, aaron swartz's partner, taren stinebrickner- kauffman, called for prosecutors to be held accountable. >> on last friday he face the prospect of yet another three months of uncertainty of ups and downs of being forced by the government to spend every fiber of his being on this damnable, since this trial. with no guarantee could exonerate himself at the end of it. he was so scared and so frustrated and so desperate and more than anything, just so weary. i think he just could not take it another day. aarib would have loved to have been here because of the last week, phoenix's are already rising fro